Maron V. Seder at 11am...TYT at 3-5pm

Have a good show ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

What time Central does the show start? I'm going to try using headphones and see if the boss notices...cuz I have a long typing project.

Samuel?? 11 am sharp right?

what's TYT?

and got the last available computer at the local cyber center - am actually paying for my time here so it will cost me to watch these two guys

but sam and marc will not get the money, owh well

i hope it'll be worthy at least

will marc show up? will the audio work on this thing?

The Young Turks

the young turcs

11am Est
8am Pst........ :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

because i do not know if it is this funky mexican computer or the usual sam mark funkyness but am not getting anything yet

starts 10 AM Central

Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
By Robert Weissman
January 22, 2008

It would be nice to write off the current crisis on Wall Street and
global financial markets as something that only matters to the investor
class.

Unfortunately, the effects are already being felt in lower-income
communities around the United States. Worst-case scenarios for what
spins out from the U.S. mortgage meltdown are truly frightening -- a
severe world recession is a distinct possibility.

Whether such worst-case scenarios can be averted, or softened -- and
preventing the recurrence of similar crises in the future -- depends on
abandoning the laissez-faire financial regulatory regime entrenched over
the last decade.

The current crisis is the predictable (and predicted) result of a
massive U.S. housing bubble, which itself can be traced in part to
global economic imbalances that could have been prevented.

At least five distinct regulatory failures led to the current crisis.

Regulatory Failure Number One: Failure to Manage the U.S. Trade Deficit.
The housing bubble (as well as the surge in leveraged buyouts of
publicly traded companies ("private equity")) was fueled by cheap credit
-- low interest rates. One reason for the cheap credit was an influx of
capital into the United States from China. China's capital surplus was
the mirror image of the U.S. trade deficit -- U.S. corporations were
sending lots of dollars to China in exchange for the cheap stuff sold to
U.S. consumers.

Regulatory Failure Number Two: Failure to Intervene to Pop the Housing
Bubble. Along with an influx of capital, Federal Reserve policy kept
interest rates very low. There were good reasons for the Fed Policy, but
that did not mean the Fed was helpless to prevent the housing bubble. As
economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and
Policy Research insisted at the time, Federal Reserve Chair Alan
Greenspan simply by identifying the bubble -- and adjusting public
perception of the future of the housing market -- could have prevented
or at least contained the bubble. He declined, and even denied the
existence of a bubble.

Regulatory Failure Number Three: Financial Deregulation and Unchecked
Financial "Innovation." A key reason that mortgages were made available
so widely and with such little review of recipients' qualifications was
a shift in which institutions hold the mortgages. Traditionally, banks
made mortgages and held them. In the new era, banks and non-bank
mortgage lenders made loans, but then sold the loans to others.
Investment banks packaged lots of mortgage loans into "Collateralized
Debt Obligations" (CDOs) and then sold them on Wall Street, with a
promise of a steady stream of revenue from interest payments. These
operations were pretty much unregulated. Despite the supposed
sophistication of the investors involved, no one took account of how
shoddy the loans were or -- more fundamentally -- the certainty that
huge numbers would go bad if and when the housing bubble popped.

Regulatory Failure Number Four: Private Regulatory Failure. It was the
job of ratings agencies (like Standard and Poor's, and Moody's) to
assess the CDOs and give investors guidance on how risky they were. They
failed totally, likely in part because they wanted to maintain good
relations with the investment banks issuing the CDOs.

Regulatory Failure Number Five: No Controls Over Predatory Lenders. The
toxic stew of financial deregulation and the housing bubble created the
circumstances in which aggressive lenders were nearly certain to abuse
vulnerable borrowers. The terms of your loan don't matter, they
effectively purred to borrowers, so long as the value of your house is
going up. Lenders duped borrowers into conditions they could not
possibly satisfy, making the current rash of foreclosures on subprime
loans inevitable. Effective regulation of lending practices could have
prevented the abusive loans, but none was to be found.

Unfortunately, the consequences of the mortgage meltdown go far beyond
the foreclosure epidemic, as horrible a toll as that is taking. The
entanglement of the financial sector with mortgage instruments, and the
ripple effects of the housing bubble, has made lenders uncertain of who
even among large corporations and financial institutions is credit
worthy. The resulting credit crunch endangers the functioning of the
global economy. Financial markets are guessing wildly about the
prospects of banks, insurers and other financial corporations, and the
plunging value of stocks poses immediate dangers to the real global
economy.

Less acute, but probably more profoundly, the popping of the housing
bubble is driving down home prices. U.S. consumer demand over the last
five years has been driven by consumers borrowing against the increased
value of their homes; with housing values falling, that process is
working in reverse. The depressed housing market is also ravaging the
construction sector, a nontrivial portion of the U.S. economy. A serious
recession looms as a real possibility.

Mitigating these harms and preventing the worst now depends on active
and interventionist government -- a government stimulus plan, and
aggressive efforts to force lenders to adjust mortgage terms and let
people stay in their homes. Preventing financial panics of the kind now
underway require new standards of transparency and regulation for high
finance. The coming days and months will tell whether any lessons have
been learned.

Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational
Monitor, and director of Essential
Action .

(c) Robert Weissman

This article is posted at:
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i think

I got my coffee,it's too early..
But,I'll listen to these two anytime ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

blank cams for the next hour

bidobear.. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Sam and Lauren on sammy cam!

what a wonderful tan...still does not beat mine though

frozen. Looks like from when they signed off before.

Iraqi Lawmakers Vote to Change Flag

BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament on Tuesday passed a law to change the Saddam Hussein-era flag.....

HERE'S THE NEW FLAG ...

Free Democracy

Sammy's on..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Sammy is LIVE now!

stripes down makes you look thinner.

but what time is it in paris?

is LIVE too. Yay!

the wonders of technology!

'ello, 'ello Tuesday twins....ohhhhhhhhhhhh I see 'em both !!

Anyone know who's replacing the Young Turks on AAR?

11:00 am Eastern Standard Time
10:00 am Central Standard Time
9:00 am Mountain Standard Time
8:00 am Pacific Standard Time

*here*

Sammer: bad TYT link in your header post...

you mean?: http://www.theyoungturks.com

Are there any plans to offer this as a podcast? I can only get the video to work for me about half the time.

Subscription thing..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

regarding Hillary. I did not see Hillary rising above the "bickering"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPTdSYTLA10

eating, but it really doesn't bother me as much as make me hungry

regarding Obama. He's not as entrenched and will likely have a larger working marjority in Congress.

you got that one right. the phrase pit bull comes to mind.

the good graces of brett and/or fernando have been working on offering podcasts when they can - i am not sure where they are today - i have been out of the loop

i curse so much!!!follow the leaders!

doesn't mean much, he can still be manipulated by the higher corporate powers who really rule the county

I wish you had slept in today. :)

MoLib :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Obama could be easily manipulated by anyone.

i am still holding out for the only hope, edwards - the other two stooges are tweedle dee and tweedle dum for me - though i slightly favor the dum over the dee just because he's a little more pleasant to listen to - hilary talk grates on me

Which of the candidates was the first to come out with policy statements on the issues without waiting to hear what everybody else says.

i hope you're right, he'll get my vote if he's the candidate, hillary won't

an arse hole he also said its not because of the war that the markets are going hay wire!

but i'm waiting with baited breath for these gazillionaires to start jumping out of buildings

1,2,3 jump you friggin conniving evil con artists and thieves, jump!

we needed comedians

Some of the best Plays were written during the depression. some of the best musicals came out of the depression.
We need entertainment to take our minds off our problems, not propaganda covering it up.

One election at a time...

What's new ?

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

cum cum now mire---someone has to bust that hymen!!!

Another Take
Another Reader Responds to TPM Reader CN ...

I think it's a mistake to choose the meanest junkyard dog in this fight - the response of a party traumatized by its losses. George W. Bush didn't beat Al Gore by slamming him in the debates, or by flinging opposition research in his teeth. He didn't defeat John Kerry by relentlessly attacking him when they met on stage. Instead, he struck a pose of good-natured calm. It allowed him to seem a reasonable and ordinary fellow, and made Gore and Kerry look pedantic, arch, and overwrought. Most pundits felt that Gore and Kerry won their debates on the merits, but it was indisputable that they failed to connect with the electorate on a gut level. And that cost them. We need a candidate who runs a campaign that's capable of giving as good as it gets, or of hitting back harder. But we also need a candidate who's capable of appealing to voters, of inspiring their trust and confidence, and of connecting with independents and moderate Republicans. That was the Bush formula - a likeable candidate who mouthed centrist mantras, and an unbelievably nasty, no-holds-barred campaign operation. It's an open question whether Obama's campaign can get down in the slime with the Clintons, and win. But Hillary's evident glee in throwing elbows is a big part of what drives her negatives. Obama's performance in the debates thus far, defending himself without seeming nasty or spiteful, is precisely what he'll need to win in November. Remember, debates aren't for pundits, they're for undecided voters. And time and again, those voters are repelled by strong attacks, however accurate, and drawn to the candidate who seems to rise above them.
--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/064354.php

Be prepared to hunker in people.

One election at a time...

I've never seen anyone so much not in denial--- true denial people don't say they in :)

I decided to support Obama a few months ago. I think it will be a step backwards to have another 4 years of a Clinton. I think we forget Hillary's votes that supported Bush's policies in the Senate. And, I like the way he talks about politics. Plus, I think it would be fantastic to have a African American as President. If Hillary was less polarizing and didn't use slash and burn tactics and was more honest and inspiring it would be a more difficult choice between the two.

hurry up before the gates of hell get backed up

Fuckin fuckin fuckin -

Geez people...

Do they always cuss like this?

this is the best analysis I've heard --
by far exceeds the BS on MSM like matthews and russert and stephanopolis

Will the TYT show appearance be SammyCam'd today?

Edwards could beat any of the Rethugs.
Edwards 2008!

One election at a time...

they swear like sailors over there. try listening to lynn samuels sometime.

A lot? Seder running earlier than Maron?

that would be edwards, the first one to come up with something and the others took them up - i liked it when he rejected the fox debates

i will not loose my virginity to hillary, no way

Though President Bush is under pressure from fiscal conservatives in Congress and budget watchdog groups, it is unlikely that he will challenge Congress’ billions of dollars in earmarks. Representative Roy Blunt (R-MS) has suggested that any challenges to Congress’ pork business could jeopardize Bush’s relationship with Congress. The 2008 spending bills signed by Bush contain at least 11,700 earmarks worth $16.9 billion. These figures mark a decline since Republican control of Congress. (New York Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/washington/22earmark.html?ex=135874440...

marc and sam will do fine - i am sure of it - artists musicians and the like are better off in those situations than others stuck in mainstream jobs that are going to disappear

http://www.towncalleddobson.com/?p=830

Yes, I think something is out of whack... They are talking over each other and not responding to each other... And sometimes, dead silence...

Sam keeps laughing at Marc's jokes before we can hear them. And that's rough; 'cause comedy depends on timing...

And Collin Quinn's show? Has that not been off the air for a couple years now?

Sam. If you were in the Ebenezer Baptist Church with that choir behind you and the energy present you would sound like Barack! I would love to see that.

Did you all stock up on seed stock?

So does anyone know?
Submitted by Harold on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:28am.
Will the TYT show appearance be SammyCam'd today?

Here's the link

http://www.theyoungturks.com/

This has switched to Divorce Court???

Good Lord, like I don't get enough of that here already.
Difference is, I get paid for it!

i had that problem last week and once today. f5 refresh makes it go away.

the one with the monsanto copyright on it?

I go back to VA or Louisiana, I take on something of the local patois pretty quickly.

I wasn't sure it was free to non-members.

Plus, I don't think Sam'll be on their Cam, as they're on different coasts.

So I was wondering if we'd be able to see Sam's side of it via the SammyCam?

umm if she can make more $$ than you why don't you try to get alimony why would she deserve it more than you?
some men do get alimony

sounds like it. not sure why he's washing his laundry in public.

That's why he's the only one I really trust

I recall seeing Sammy on the TYT vidcast from his place recently.

Long time no see..

Welcome aboard the Turrets cam... ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

get alimony.

"tourettes"

OMG that's just plain hilarious!

the soft talk is killing me!!

women that is for sure

are you using Opera? alt f5 refreshes the blog. What is the one that refreshes everything?

WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING NEEDS!

Personal Ad!

one minute politics, the campaign, foreign diplomacy the next minute emotionally revealing banter between two highly evolved males....

i am loggin in from mexico and i have a wonderful connection - no problem at all - i think they're getting better at this

Submitted by MMRules on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:43am.
...Welcome aboard the Turrets cam... ;)
----
pssst...
Submitted by Nobody on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:45am.
"tourettes"
----
Maybe the goddam camera is mounted on a motherfuggin' tower?

Have Nikki give me a call :)

about their women

has a comfy couch

thats sad coz when the centipede gets hot----

i dug my weed out the boxes

Are you serious?

All the women just hung up.

with his wife was his porn fixation

f5 is refresh. i run sammy cam in a standalone window so i'm not sure of the extent of the refresh.

now it's the time to refinance

i thought rates were in the 5 ranges

fancy running into you here!

pssst...
new
Submitted by Nobody on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:45am.
"tourettes"
*******
Blame it on Google Spell Check ! ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Please raise your hands!

i thought he was going to talk about weed - i guess he meant wi

i'm starting to suspect marc's problem
new
Submitted by mire on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:53am.
with his wife was his porn fixation
--------------------------------
has he ever talked about it

sentenced to 17 years and 4 months in prison.

breaking on MSNBC just now.

lol...

What Bernanke is doing is still sort of scary. The international markets aren't going to be happy with unnaturally low interest rates here, especially China if it owns a lot of our treasury bonds. It will keep promoting inflation

Except, we owe like $9 trillion in debt ($2 trillion from the Iraq intervention, when it's all over), so inflation is a way to get out of that somewhat.

but I prefer our xBox 360 over our Wii.

Sara likes the Wii more.

Favorite xBox 360 games: TF2, Halo3, FIFA, Tetris, xBox Live games

Wii games: Zelda, Mario Galaxy, Classic Nintendo downloads

Both are cool and unique in their own ways.

thanks toniD---why is not getting LIFE? fucking terrorist!!!

no, don't change a thing~~loving the discussion today! Politics, relationships, they're my pretend friends I think

padilla wasn't a saint by any measure but this is ridiculous

Mishna Wolff

He had pictures with his wife on his myspace page.

was Marc's wife. She is also a comedian. He talked about her all the time on his radio shows. She was a lot younger than him. He also talked about needing to go to anger management so he would stop yelling.

You need to recycle from the top end to the bottom end to sustain growth...

Tax the rich and give the money to the poor...The best method of course are infrastructure jobs...

If only I'd thought of it first...but mother nature did.

by Rosemarie Jackowski

...
Ralph is not the only candidate who should be considered for the presidency. There are others who are also qualified, such as Dennis Kucinich, Angela Davis, Cynthia McKinney, Ward Churchill, William Blum, Cindy Sheehan, and many, many more.
...

why would you expect them to change from what they are doing now.

Here is a fun web page by a guy who used to be a trading computer programmer on Wall Street, and he made his money and became convinced in 'collapse' in the United States, and so they moved to New Zealand where his wife runs their organic farm and he keeps putting insider commentary about what is happening on his website

http://cryptogon.com/

tell us how you really feel (i don't disagree)

not against...they dont seem to listen to each other!!

from marc

submitted by toniD at 11:25 am

have we forgotten that Bush did not defeat Gore & Kerry??

thanks to the Supreme Court/daddy's friends, and election shenanigans in Florida and Ohio, that's the way Bush "won"

is a dead man walking

because all the other candidates have been lookin worse and worse with time and coverage

marc and the oscars!

Written and performed by Saul Williams
with Trent Reznor, CX Kidtronik, Thavius Beck and more.

THE INEVITABLE RISE AND LIBERATION OF NIGGYTARDUST!

That is frightening. A woman was on GMA this am talking about how the majority of jobs in America are service oriented, and so that when people lose them, they're white collar unemployed. That's a shift from when I was younger...

Mishna Wolfe
Submitted by mo lib on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:58am.
Ms. Maron
Submitted by ottilie on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:58am.
He had pictures with his wife on his myspace page.
Marc's wife
new
Submitted by zeek on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 12:01pm.
Mishna Wolff
--------------------------------
thanks for the myspace ...thats sad they look like they would have gone great together
what i would usually call a cute couple
too bad it didn't work out
i wish i knew someone i could fix marc up with
a nice jewish girl

I see you over there. Happy New Year!

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwc

we don't need to be involved here

isn't that where a prison is?
could she be an inmate?
careful marc

did he kill the duck after it sucked his dick or before?

sorry but thats what my grampa did when he was like 100 yrs old
i bet marc wasn't even aware he was doing it

http://movies.aol.com/oscars-academy-awards/nominee-winner

i have not seen the movie!! did he act in "my left leg" too? cant remember now

Didn't even go to see any of that tripe...

Kids will drag home the dvds sooner or later...

Please.. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

that says that 99% of all employers are small business owners.

Ironic that these are the class of corporations the most punished by Bush policy.

NOOOOOOOOOO

At a couple of clubs before they split. They seemed like a good couple.

I also saw Marc from the front row after they split and he savaged the woman sitting next to me who happened to be Jewish. His issues were very raw at that point.

of himself at the end of the show are great little pieces of art. Hope he is able to save them.

Well there isn't one...Sorry but this mindless optimism thing is new for me and I'm not very good at it...

kiddies!!

Oh the hell you say...

i aint gonna study you man, coz i am busting my behind here!!

Bill Clinton May Get Payout of $20 Million

Former President Clinton stands to reap around $20 million -- and will sever a politically sensitive partnership tie to Dubai -- by ending his high-profile business relationship with the investment firm of billionaire friend Ron Burkle.

Mr. Clinton is negotiating to end his relationship with Mr. Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. as part of a broader effort to protect the presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, from potential conflicts of interest. Details of Mr. Clinton's involvement in Yucaipa and his efforts to unwind it come from documents and interviews with people familiar with the matter.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120097424021905843.html?mod=googlenews_w...

The big loser in South Carolina was, in fact, talk radio: a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight. For more than a month, the leading conservative talkers in the country have broadcast identical messages in an effort to demonize Mike Huckabee and John McCain. If you’ve tuned in at all to Rush, Sean, Savage, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, and two dozen others you’ve heard a consistent drum beat of hostility toward Mac and Huck.
[…]

In other words, the talk radio jihad against Mac and Huck hasn’t destroyed or even visibly damaged those candidates. But it has damaged, and may help destroy, talk radio.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/21/clinton-caught-dozing-off_n_825...

By Stephen Lendman

His newest book and subject of this review is titled Communication Revolution - Critical Junctures and the Future of Media. He believes it may be his best one, and Annenberg School of Communication Dean, Machael Delli Carpini, says it is "part media critique, part intellectual history, part personal memoir, and part manifesto."

McChesney's premise is we have "an unprecendented (rare window of opportunity in the next decade or two) to create a communication system that will be a powerful impetus (for) a more egalitarian, humane, sustainable, and creative (self-governing) society." He calls it a "critical juncture" that won't remain open for long.

It offers a "historic moment" in a "fight we cannot afford to lose."

The stakes for a free society are that high, and stacked against the public interest are powerful forces determined to prevail with friends in high places supporting them.

Nonetheless, McChesney believes "the corporate stranglehold over our media system is very much in jeopardy,"...

Test The Evidence To See If Sarkozy's Rumored Wife Is Pregnant

Former supermodel Carla Bruni is not shying away from exposing her tummy as rumors swirl about whether she is pregnant with French president Nicolas Sarkozy's baby. The "first girlfiend" was spotted in nothing but a white bikini frolicking around Corsica with her young son Aurelien. (Aurelien's father is philosophy professor Raphael Enthoven.)

Reporters and bloggers are also speculating over a secret Sarkozy-Bruni marriage after the president did little to quell suspicions when he told approximately 600 reporters that, "There are strong chances you will learn of it once it's done." Bruni is also sporting a wedding band on her right hand. In certain countries in Europe men and women wear bands on their right hand.

Look at the near-nude photos of Bruni and Sarkozy on vacation in Egypt about three weeks ago. Compare that to the slideshow below of Bruni in Corsica (all photos are credited to NS4W.org). Decide for yourself if she has a little Sarko in there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/21/test-the-evidence-to-see-_n_824...

My bank has a sign
Submitted by Annette on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 12:13pm.
that says that 99% of all employers are small business owners.

...since small business owners nowadays are independent contractors who use to be employees who were paid benefits once upon a time. Now as small business owners they can work for the corporations on fixed contracts/salaries and the insurance companies benefit because ICs must also acquire general liability insurance as well as all the other insurances (vehicle used for business (increased rate vs. personal use)insurance, medical, life, disability). Banks get the advantage of several accounts and loans from ICs. It's a lovely arrangement for fascism.

Progressives nominated for ‘Best Documentary’ Oscar.

The nominees for the 80th Academy Awards were announced this morning and the nominees in the “Best Documentary Feature” category are almost all progressive films, including ThinkProgress favorites SiCKO, No End In Sight and Taxi To The Dark Side. And the nominees are:

“No End in Sight” (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

“Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience” (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins

“Sicko” (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara

“Taxi to the Dark Side” (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner

“War/Dance” (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Though the winners will be announced on Feb. 24, nominees may not show up to accept them because many are expected to honor the picket lines of the striking Writers Guild of America.

Yeah, now I remember why I wait til after 5:00 and weekends to hang out here.

Bye guys.

Nice seein' ya Nobs. Alice. MB. Zeek. MM...

really

Sallie Mae (SLM) and two other lenders that they will no longer make private loans available for subprime students.

remember those dreams of your kids going to college?
Submitted by dan on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 12:41pm.
----
I am so old, I remember single income families.

Single income families

---
totally. My grandfather had two years of college and was a paper products salesman for drugstores, and was lucky enough to keep his job during the depression. They had a faith healing religion (christian science) and lived in Kansas. He had five kids, and they always could have a big two or three story house on the edge of the 'upscale' part of Kansas city, and had a car, four of the kids went to college at least part-way and my grandmother went through a master's in english once the kids were gone, and they paid for cancer treatment when they backslid on their religion. Not easy to do this on one income now.

The reason why it changed is that prices of various big items adjust to match the amount of money people have available. After the depression and WWII, some vast fortunes of the rich were wiped out, so the difference between the top 10% and bottom 25% wasn't so great, so the rich couldn't drive housing up. When most women got jobs, companies could just charge more for various key items because lots of households could afford it.

dan,
I've been watching ABK for several weeks. I haven't been gutsy enough to jump in.

Ambac Financial Group, Inc.
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Sign Our Petition for Equal Access

Resolution in favor of ALL CANDIDATES of the major parties [some of us would scratch that weasely phrase - DS] being included in nationally broadcast debates

Whereas the democracy of our country is dependent on the free and open exchange of ideas and information,

And, whereas the media conglomerates and corporate interests, driven by shareholder profits, are using the public air waves to limit access and monopolize the broadcasting commons,

And whereas these media conglomerates and corporate interests are undermining the public interest to be fully informed about critical issues, thus declaring themselves to be private entities who can limit debate through arbitrarily set conditions for participation ,

Be it resolved that Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles shall support this resolution to request that the Democratic National Committee REQUIRE that the broadcasting networks who use the public air waves include all presidential candidates in all nationally televised debates.

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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Progressives nominated for ‘Best Documentary’ Oscar. The nominees for the 80th Academy Awards were announced this morning and the nominees in the “Best Documentary Feature” category are almost all progressive films, including ThinkProgress favorites SiCKO, No End In Sight and Taxi To The Dark Side. And the nominees are:

“No End in Sight” (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

“Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience” (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins

“Sicko” (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara

“Taxi to the Dark Side” (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner

“War/Dance” (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Though the winners will be announced on Feb. 24, nominees may not show up to accept them because many are expected to honor the picket lines of the striking Writers Guild of America.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/22/progressives-nominated-for-best-docu...

Buchanan: McCain is ‘Bush on steroids.’ On Hardball yesterday, guests Stephen A. Smith and Pat Buchanan discussed the foreign policy impact of electing either Rudy Giuliani or John McCain. Buchanan cautioned that McCain will have a neoconservative attitude:

He’s very bellicose. He’s got that very in-your-face attitude Bush does. I think we could very well be at war with Iran. That’s one of the reasons I’ve always been skeptical of McCain. I think he’s Bush on steroids.

Commenting on Giuliani, Smith said, “If he becomes the next President of the United States, that would be an absolute disaster. … There would no foreign relations whatsoever.” Buchanan added that Rudy’s foreign policy is actually “Norman Podhoretz’s foreign policy.”

Video at link

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/22/buchanan-mccain-is-bush-on-steroids/

Norquist: voters don’t care about global warming. In an interview with CQ, conservative activist Grover Norquist says that he doesn’t think “there’s a person in this country that votes on this subject.” Norquist’s claim flies in the face of public opinion as 60 percent of Americans believe “we must take action now or it will be too late to stop it” and 58 percent favor capping carbon emissions. Contradicting Norquist, pollster Frank Luntz has said climate change is “the single biggest vulnerability” for conservatives.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/22/norquist-voters-dont-care-about-glob...

i would say its good luck you didn't jump in unless you were going to play tghe short side. it was close to 25 right around christmas and then as subprime went kerflooey, everyone started looking at the insurance behind it, and abk imploded.

Will Fox News Attack Fred Thompson As Unable To ‘Face Al Qaeda’ For Skipping Its GOP Debate?
Fox News is reporting that Fred Thompson has “no plans to attend Thursday’s Florida debate” sponsored by the network. Thompson is still in the GOP presidential race, although there is speculation that he will soon be dropping out.

In the past, Fox pundits have repeatedly attacked Democratic candidates who opted out of their debates. Some examples:

“The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face Al Qaeda.” [Roger Ailes, 6/5/07]

“These people use techniques perfected by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of information. They lie, distort, defame, all the time. So it’s not surprising that MoveOn objected to a debate sponsored by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party. … That was simply stupid. Fox News has sponsored a number of debates in the past, all of them fair and balanced.” [Bill O’Reilly, 3/12/07]

“They [liberals] just want to stop at any of their — any Democrats from participating in this because it is a Fox thing, and they’re willing to intimidate them to do it. This is junior grade Stalinism on their part.” [Mort Kondracke, 3/10/07]

We await Fox’s sharp condemnations of Thompson as a coward.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/22/thompson-fox/

A few minutes ago on a local radio show, I heard a Right Wing caller commenting on the economy.

He used the word "glomerates." I thought that I misheard "Emirates", as in United Arab Emirates. But he continued to use glomerates several times in reference to large corporations.

I kinda like it even though it is born of ignorance.

glom:
v.tr.
1.) To steal.
2.) To seize; grab.
[Probably from Scots glam, to snatch at.]
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conglomerate:
n. (-ər-ĭt)
1.) A corporation made up of a number of different companies that operate in diversified fields.
[Latin conglomerāre, conglomerāt- : com-, com- + glomerāre, to wind into a ball (from glomus, glomer-, ball).]

One more.. :)

Target: The Media, www.cnn.com, www.msnbc.com, etc.

Description/History:
The media networks like CNN, Fox News, and many others seem to not report on Former Senator John Edwards, and if they do by some chance report on John Edwards it’s always negative.

I mean for example just recent CNN, MS NBC, and many others, reported on Barack Obama placing 1st in the Iowa Caucuses, and they also reported Hillary Clinton placing 3rd in the Iowa Caucuses, but they never really reported on John Edwards placing 2nd, The only thing they did say was that Edwards was out of the race for President.

Once again after placing 2nd in Iowa, they still reported negatively on John Edwards. I think it’s all because John Edwards is willing to take on the big corporations and their lobbyist and I think that scares them just a little, but that does not give them the right to report biased and unfair on John Edwards.

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He's a Basketball commentator..

What's He doing on a Political show ?

I saw him on this Msnbc show a couple of days ago..

And,I said the same thing "What's He doing on a Political show" ?

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dan: "...it was close to 25 right around christmas and then as subprime went kerflooey, everyone started looking at the insurance behind it, and abk imploded."
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I started watching it when it was imploding: I look around for opportunities to do some bottom feeding. Around these parts, fishermen call 'em suckers.

Insurance companies always benefit otherwise this business wouldn't exist. A simple example is my home owners insurance that I pay religiously just to be able to sleep at night knowing that in case of some calamity I won't have to sleep on the street. But, it's my home so I take really good care of it, I always close the faucets, check the stove and so on so there's no chance I'll blow up or flood my own home. In the area I live there aren't any tornadoes or tsunamis so that ain't gonna bring my home down either. So why do I pay? For my spiritual peace. Meanwhile, the insurance companies get that money and can keep it.

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